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yellow Jack.

Down below the sea-line dipt the summer
Gladly earth and ocean saw the tyrant die;
| From the fort above the harbor doomed the
And the gulls rose screaming from the
Pier, parade, and terrace famed with colors
gay,
Every ship in harbor with festal flags was
For the crowded seaport town kept holiday.
And was fain to look her merriest and her
best,
Every eye went seward as the cannon
spoke:
The echoes walked an answer and fell asleep
once more;
And sudden past the headland, thro' the cloud
Of smoke,
Came gallant ship, full SAIL and straight
for shore.
Red against the sunset her towering canvas
shone
Defiant at her masthead the pennant fut-
Past the fort and toward the harbor silent she
| bore on.
Dip OF the flag nor sound of gun-no salute
gave she.
From the forts embrasure rang reminder
Still the pennon futtered, still no answer
40, our flag insultedg" cried the watching
| crowd.
Give them solid shot, their insolence to
tame!'
| With answering PROV the vessel onward
And they hailed and shouted, and reply was
none.
Right and left before her the pleasure-barges
One she crushed and sank, but silent held
| she on.
hot ,.E, o,se -
Hailed her-ran alongside-got them no re-
| Up her sides the crew went, swarming with
cheer
Now wen teach them manners, or know
the reason why"
Not a soul to meet them, and they stood
aghast:
Empty was the deck--no helmsman at the
wheel
Only one dead sailor lay huddlcd by the mast,
| Grinned as if defying their pistols and their
steel.
| Down the hatch they stumbled-back they
| For the crew and captain were lying dead
below:
Heterskelter DER the bulwark to their boat
And back to shore in terror, hard as they
| could row.
SuIch1y as tleS idndeu FuihOr went DeIofe,
| Pier, parade, and terrace emptied as they
came,
For the king of terrors was steering for that
shore,
And they recognized his colors now and
knew his name.
Death with his most dreaded henchman at
his side,
Death, all fierce and famished, maddening
10 be fed;
But his appetite was glutted when the sum
mer died.
And more than half the dwellers in that
seaport town were dead.
Now the town has dwindled, now the fort is
mute;
But men still remember, and baIIad-singers
bow they challenged death-grm death
himself for a salute,
And how yellow jack avenged the insult to
his king.
Herbert F Clarke
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Nearly Fremont and Lincoln"

There are very few who remember
that the Republican ticket in 1886 came
| near being Fremont and Lincoln. We
quote from the Century Life: How
ever picturesquely Fremont for the
moment lOomed up as the standard
bearer of the Republican party,
future historical interest centers
upon the second act of the Phila-
delphia convention. 1t shows us
how strangely to human wisdom
vibrate the delicately balanced scales
of fate; or rather how inscrutable and
yet how unerring are the far-reaching
process of Divine Providence. The
principal candidate having been
selected without contention of delay,
the convention proceeded to nomina-
ton for Vice-President. On the first
| informal ballot William l.. Dayton of
New Jersey received 259 votes and
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois lie;
the remaining votes being scattered
| among thirteen other names. The
dominating thought of the con-
vention being the assertion of
principle and not the promotion of
men, there was no further contest: and
though Mr.. Dayton had not received
a majority support, his nomination
was nevertheless at once made un-
animous. Those who are familiar with
the eccentricitieS of nominating con-
yentiOns when in this listlesS and
| drifting mood know how easily an OPP
perfume speech from some eloquent
delegate or a few adroitlv arranged
delegation caucusCS might have re-
verSed this result; and imagination
may not easily construct the possible
changes in the history which a sue
cessful campaign of the ticket in that
form might have wrought. What
would have been the consequences to
America and humanity had the Re-
bellion, even then being devised by
the southern hotspurs, burst upon the
nation in the winter of 1856, with the
nations sword of commander-in-chief
in the hand of the impulsive Fremont,
Lincoln, inheriting the patient wariness
and cool blood of three generations of
pioneers and India-hghters, welding
only the powerless gavel of Vice
President? But the hour of destiny
had not yet struck"
The authors publish the following in
foOt-note:
''Mr. /. ;. Van Dyke, son Of one of
the delegates to Philadelphia, kindly
writes us: Nothing that Mr. Lincoln
has ever written is more characteristic
than the following note from him to
my father just after the convention
not for publication but merely as a
private expression of his feelings to an
old acquaintance:
SPRINGFIELD ILL, JUNE 81, 1865.
Hon. JOHN VAN DYKE.
MY DEAR SIR: Allow me to thank you for
your kind notice of me in the Philadelphia
convention.
when you meet Judge Dayton present my
respects, and tell him think him far better
man than ! for the position he is in, and that
shall support both him and Colonel Fremont
most cordially. Present my best respects TO
Mrs. w. and believe me, Yours truly,
A. LINCOLN"
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The Advent of Casper Hauser.

On the Goth of May. 1928. there APP
peared in Nuremburg a stout, short
boy, sixteen or eighteen years old. of
rustic appearance, having light
chestnut hair, gray eyes, and downy
beginning OF beard, and wearing a
large felt hat. jacket of dark-9rav
cloth, with breeches of the same, blue
stockings, and hob-nailed half-boots
He had Il letter without signature,
addressed to Herr Friedrich Won
NeSsenig, major in the sixth light
cavalry, which read; i send You a
youth who wishes to serve, like his
father, in the Lighthouse. He was
the 9Th of October, 1872. | am a poor
days worker. with a family to take
care Of. | have brought the boy up
in the Christian religion, and have
never let him 90 away from my house.
SO that not soul in the world knows
where he has lived till now. Do not
question him on this subject, for he
cannot tell You anything. To keep
him more in the dark. | brought him
as far as Neumark in the night. He
has not a sou. If you don't want to
keep him, kill him, or hang him up by
the chimney" This letter inclosed
another one, which was regarded as of
sixteen years earlier date, on paper of
similar character, and apparently in
the same hand. 1t read in substance:
The child has been baptized, and his
name Is Caspar. When he is seven
teen years old, send him to Nurem-
berg, to the light cavalry regiment.
He was born on the 30th of april.
1872. | am a poor girl and cannot
support him. and his father is dead"
Herr Won WesSenig questioned the
youth, but he could not tell who he
was or where he had come from.
Such prodigious ignorance appeared
suspicious to the major, and he sent
the letters to the police commissioner,
asking his advice about them. The
police at first regarded Caspar as a
ya~abond, and he was locked up.
Three points seemed to be established:
that he was born on the Both Of April,
1912; that he was the illegitimate son
Of poor girl and light-cavalry
man; and as his dialect indicated, that
he was a native OF some part of Ba-
vi3ria, near the borders of Bohemia.
More than this, he had something to
conceal: he had probably committed
some oilense, which he did not care
about aCilnOWleGg Gging to the police,
and he was trying to cover up his
traces. When he saw that, instead of
his being enrolled in the cavalry, they
were taking him TO prison. he made
himself appear still more simple
minded and silly than before. Ii they
had taken a sensible course i'm the
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Female Gum-Chewers.

Chew! Chew! Chew! 1t has be-
come a National habit. and he or she
wso has not Il mouthful of gum or
tobacco upon which the energies are
expended is an exception In social
gatherings, on the street-car, at public
entertainments, ii is the same ever
lasting wagging of the chin. Wax
tiXures of the people of the present
will be made, thousand years from
now. with a perpetual motion machine
hidden in the mouth to keep the Jaws
moving in order to be a realistic repre-
sentation. The figure would be a
caricature without it. Happy is the
gum-manufacturer in this day and
generation, for the cry is still for more
of his products. Refined women can
rival the most inveterate tobacco
chewers in their power of chewing
Like the flowing of Tennyson's
Brook" their jaws wag on for
ever. "-Ioledo Blade.
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The Drudgery of Office.

But 1t seems almost heartleSs to
dwell upon this idle gayety and silken
/ leisure while a score of Mayors, Colo
nels, and Brevet-Brigadiers are toiling
for their country in the great depart
mentS of the Government. Turn from
the giddy throng, and come with me
a moment to the grimy workshop of
one of these sweating patriots. 1t is
/ 10 o'clock in the morning. Lieut.
Col. Bounce, Assistant Thingabob-
General, has just dragged his weary
footsteps to the office. Compelled to
rise at $50 or 9 a. m. while his win
dow is but ''glimmering square"
and when as yet the luxurious gar
bage man has not begun his rounds,
this martyr has snatched a hasty
| breakfast and hurried as fast as bat
tered limbs would carry him to save
his native land. Only a rosewood
desk with velvet footstool attach
ment; only plain ebony and Russia
leather armchair with pivots and
rockers to ease his pains, only row
of electric buttons to call the insolent
and fatted clerks from the rooms be-
yond, or to summon the doorkeeper
from the hall, or to bring the valet to
light his cigaret or move his hat, or
pick up his handkerchief that has
fallen to the floor. Only these and a
few other mitigations of a fate that for
sOrdid care and cruel toll has no par
allel in the annals of immOlatiOn.
Watch the SCARED and battered old
veteran as he stretches himself upon
the sofa to struggle with the morning
paper - neglected, weary, manned,
desOlate, save for the sense of duty
that thrills his every fibre. Watch
him as he dOZes for an instant while
an unsympathizing minion stands
over him to brush away the flies.
This lasts nearly an hour. For as
much as fifty minutes at a stretch
literally at a stretch this barba-
rous drudgery goes on. Then the hero
staggers to his feet and hobbies over
to the Russia leather chair and is
wheeled into position at the desk by
the callOus myrmidon. A touch on
the c button is followed by distant
electric giggle, and Immediately there
enters to him naughty clerk with
scornfully-wreathed lip, bearing three
papers tor signature. He gazes at
them with a shudder. His sad ewes
say imploringly: Couldn't you make
it two?' but the brave old lips utter
no complaint. He signs those papers
untlinchingly, and then-for he is but
human after all-he faints away. For
an hour and thirteen minutes he has
been on the rack of duty. For an hour
and thirteen minutes he has given his
strength, his mind, his energies to an
ungrateful but beloved country. 1t is
too much-nature will endure no
more. He faints away into his over
coat and hat-faints away to the club
and not until nearly noon does he
succeed in resuscitating himself OH
deviled oyster and in rallving suffi-
GENTLY to hold a hand at whist.
This is no fancy picture 1t is typ
ical of the lives of hardship and
drudgery and self-denial led bv doz-
ems of devoted men III this proud ma
tion's service. How, O! how can one
think of the feasting and revelrv at
the paper nnt, while such scenes are
being enacted at ones very elbow?
Washington Letter IN the Nel0 York
Tribune.
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The Honey Bird.

We came to large piece Of tilnber.
and while passing through it / had my
first experience with the honey bird Of
South Africa This curious little bird
is, in size and plumagc, about like an
English sparrow. and gets his name
from the fact that the little fellow, who
is very fond of honey, being unable to
obtain it for himself. viii lead men to
the places where the wild bees have
hidden stores of rich wild honey
Whenever this bird sees a man he will
fly close to him, lowering around, ut
tering a twittering sound: then he will
90 off in the direction of the place
Generally 4 trce)whcre the honey is.
flying backward and forward in a zig
gag fashion. Then back he will come,
tWlttering in the same manner, as if to
say: Come along, I'll show you
where it is. These actions are re-
peated until the tree is reached, when
the bird will indicate it very plainly
by flying TO it and lowering around it.
II the distance is great (and some
times the honey bird viii lead person
who is willing to follow a distance of
ten miles,, he will wait on tree until
the follower comes up and Will then
continue his business of plotting. He
is very persistent and viii do his best
to draw any one on, but if the party is
not posted about honey birds and re-
fuses to follow, or goes in the wrong
direction, the bird viii leave, probably
in search Of some person who will ap-
preciate his efforts to provide him with
sWeetmeats.
While the bees are being smoked
out and the honey taken up, the bird
will hover in the vicinity until the Job
is done, when of course his reward
comes in the shape of a feast on the
fragments that are left. If he knows
of other hives, just as soon as one is
disposed of he will lead the way to an
other, and | have, since this time.
known as many as four trees to be
taken up by a party in one day. When
the honey bird has shown one tree. if the
hunters are satisfied with that and re-
fuse to follow him further, he leaves
them; but | have never heard of an in
stance ir which the bird misled any
one in regard to finding honey. 1t
frequently happens, however, that a
honey bird will lead a person into very
dangerous places, and unless the hun
ter keeps his eyes about him, when fol-
lowing this bird, he may run right
onto lion, venomous snake, or some
other equally undesirable acquaint-
ance.-AnaertcGR Field.
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Earthquakes at Sea.

Somebody who has been investigat-
inc the subject says that the chief eff
feet of an earthquake on the ocean is
the rising OF a great sea wave, some
times very large. a.. for example. sixty
feet high AZ Lisbon in 1861, also eighty
feet at Callao in 1924. and 200 feet at
Lupatka in 1877. These waves are of
ten more destructive on land than the
actual shocks-the influx usually pre-
ceded by an overflow, which. III fact,
acts aS Il warning. One Of the most
remarkable effects is the distance 10
which these waves are propagated as
great waves. for example, right
across the Pacific. Thus most large
earthquakes on the east or west coast
of the Pacific produce waves which are
recorded on the opposite coast about
twenty-four hours after. 1t is asserted
that. as to prediction of earthquakes
nothing certain is yet known, but in
many cases there are noticeable
changes in springs and wells preceding
the event. One useful warning, how
ever, is remarked as obviously possible
namely: the report of an actual
earthquake on one side OF the Pacific
could be at once teiegraphed to the
other side. thus giving twenty-four
hours notice OF the probable event of
Il great sea wave.
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Some Wise Women.

A poor clergyman died and left
widow and two daughters. One of
| these daughters was an invalid and
the other became the mainstay of the
little family, Like too many girls.
she had received general but super
ttcial education, which did not qualify
her to teach anything. She had no
taste or skill as a milliner or dress
maker. What could she do? Acct
dentaliy, she heard a number of house
keepers regretting the impossibility of
having hot, fresh cakes for SUNDAYS
breakfast. She had a recipe for ma
king English mullins, which, if baked
| on Saturday, can be heated the next
| morning.
She called on her friends and took
orders for these mullins. The cakes
We're delicious and promptly served.
Her customers increased. She has
now large establishment and a COM
Portable income.
Another woman, in the same posi-
ton, took stock of herself to discover
what she could do.
81 know" she said, 'sthat it is the
| thing which we can do better than anv
| body else, however trivial it may be,
which commands success. | had but
| one little craft; | could dress hair and
understood its management. / set out
upon a tour through the inland towns
and villages of the middle states. ad-
Yertising that Mrs. P would teach
ladies to dress their hair boeomingly,
| and to care for it on scientific prin-
ciples.
in these small towns coifures are
unknown. l was the first to enter a
| new field, and l reaped rich harvest.
Since then l have visited and found
business in great many of the larger
towns of the United States"
Another woman, a half-starved
| dressmaker in a great city where there
were hundreds of dressmakers, over
heard gentleman in street-car say
there was no place in the city where a
man could have his socks and under
| wear mended. She took a room near
a college and opened a mending shop.
| She, too, was the one person in the
! possession of new business, and of
| course she succeeded Youths COM
pd7llO7l.
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m 71-S4' is the official appellation
of the new weapon adopted by the
German army. which, translated, or
rather written out in full, would sig
nifty: ''Manser, gun invented in 1871,
changed into magazine gun in 1884. 5"
The first improvement to be noted is
the fact that empty cartridges, after
firing are expelled by a spring instead
Of being jerked out by movement of
the hand Another improvement is
the easy use of the trigger and almost
entire absence of recoil. The maya
zine, consisting of barrel running
parallel with the bore, contains eight
cartridges. which are pushed backward
by means Of spiral spring. As they
enter the lower chamber of the lock
so-caIed spoon lifts them into the
firing chamber, whence the shells are
subsequently expelled by special
ccntrivance.
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4 Rats Revenge.


Pick MckeOn. a known en-
ploye on the wharyes of the Pennsyl-
vania Company. assures me that he
has seen many an old rat lose it, eve
in fight with the sparrows. Once he
saw sparrow caught by one-eyed
rat The quadruped had apparently
lost his eye in one of the Oat troubles
some weeks before. It was clear that
it was animated by a spirit of revenge.
For two days" says Pick, Il saw the
rat living on his back, under a string
piece, as though dead. One of Daddy
Reds horses was spilling oats near by
and the sparrows were filling them
selves. The third day the horse had a
tantrum and shook the oats all over
the rat. The sparrows ate the scat
tered oats first. They We're evidently
suspicious of the rat, although he had
been lying there at their dinner-hour
for two days. Finally bold little cock
went up to the rat and began to pick
the oats from between his hind legs
In iiffy the rat doubled on him.
There was snap like the blades of 3
jack-knife. The sparrow gave a flut-
ter and a dying gasp, and the rat
dragged him away with one wing
trailing behind him. Men York Star
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Mr.. Labouchere now and then slips
in his Jokes and illusions. Recently,
wishing to call Mr.. Goschen Shylock,
he said that he believed Mr.. Goschen's
ancestors came from Venice, and that
Mr.. Goschen was lineal descendant
of the famous merchant who once
lived there.
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RENEWS HER YOUTH,

Mrs. Ph@be Chesley. Peterson, Clay
Co, Iowa, tells the following remarkable
story, the truth of which is vouched for
by the Residents of the town: 81 am 70
years old, have been troubled with kid
ney complaint and lameness for many
years; could not dress myself without
help. Now am free from all pain and
soreness, and am able to do my own
housework. I owe my thanks to Electric
Bitters for having renewed my youth,
and removed completely all disease and
pain" Try bottle, 50c and 81 at Henry
Hinrichs Drug Store. d
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WITHOUT A MoRATa-'I was a clerk in
a grocery store at 50 week." he said,
'.but like many other young men, I fell
IN with dlsso.ute companions and was
induced to gamble"
"And was not tempted to take money
which did not belong to voul"
mo; won enough i'll a week to buy
the grocery"
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The Rev. NJ. T. Lamb of Salt Lake,
in a lecture upon the fallacies Of the
Mormon faith, shows that large sec
tions of their Bible were stolen bodily
from hak.nearn
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q. g. SEDGWICK,

TTOREEY AND COUNSELOR At LAW
Y Oalce in Torrison's brick block, north enc
sth street bridge, Nanitowoc, Wisconsin. tolec
ions promptly attended to.
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Grammar, "Cast-iron," and Log
ic" are some odd nicknames given in
a mining region where the whole body
of workers seem to have been com.
posed OF few families and to possess
only few different surnames.
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n A SH NASH

TTORNEYS ANDCOTNSELORS AT LAW
n Once over First National Bank, Eighth 81
Collections promptly attended 10.
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MM. RAHR,S SONS.

DREWER AND MALSTER, CORNER SIXTH
ID and Washington streets. South side. The
lighest cash price paid for Barley.
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!. D. MARKHAM

4 TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
IA once, in Toruson's Brick Block, Eighth
street, Adnltogoc, Wisconsin.
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Queen Victoria acknowledges
through her secretary every poem
sent to her. she never reads them.
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q A FORREST,

TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
n OHlee in Carus' Block. first h"or n dooE
LEADING 10 County judges office, south EiGhIA
Street. Nanitcwoc, Wis. Collections promptly
attended to. J"'o
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u S. LUHMANN. NJ. D. .

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office AT
Residence oT DR.. r. Simon, Hancock street
near the court house, Mauitowoc, Wis. delJ
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N Il w
JAMES KEOGH, Jr.,
STURGEON BAY, WIS,
REAL ESTATE AGENT and MONEY BROKER

Has improved farms and wild lands for sale
Particular attention given TO placing farm loans.
and when desired prompt payment OF interest
will be guaraut.cl 20 lenaers aug26-St
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srr,,rrz MICHAEL KIEwAH
SCH MITZ 81 KIR AN,

A TT0BNEYS AT LAW. OFFICE N FEANz =.a.,.,:, :
A Block. South Eighth Street Manito"oc
W1sc1n-fu. may1l
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-orApy PUBLIC AND MONEY BROKER.
y 4 a5s1. papers drawn and money loaned on
GOOD security. NanitOwOc. WIS.
ONCE west Of Manitowoc Savings Bank
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TERMS, TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR
nR IOTIS FALGE.
NICHOLAS WICKERT,

nfslCE Az az ~ s,de 24febS
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CHAS. II. SEEGER,

nENTIsT. OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN ANDER-
sons Block Corner South Eighth and quay
Streets Manitowoc. Wis. Prompt attention VIII
be given to all work entrusted 70 me. apr@'-nl
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WILLIAMS HOUSE.

D JOHNSTON, PROPRIETOR, Corner Of
"A. Eighth and Franklin streets, ManitowoC.
A Grst-class American Hotel, centrally located,
offers every induCement to the travelling public.
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s. SANDERSON

HFANEFACTURERA AND DEALERIN BOOTS
vi Shoes, Leather, &C, &C. shop on Buffalo
Street, near the corner of Eighth. Repairing
neatl N and promptly executed.